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The landscape
Mountains and plains in Spain
The coast
Spanish coasts
Unit 7
100
Raised parts of the Earth's surface
What are mountains
100
The tallest mountain in Spain
What is Teide?
100
Wet land near the mouth of a river.
What is a marsh?
100
This coast is located in the north and extends from France to Galicia.
What is the Cantabrian coast?
100
Water, rain, snow and hail are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
200
They have lower altitudes than mountains.
What are hills?
200
The highest mountain in peninsular Spain.
What is Mulhacén?
200
Land that extends into the sea.
What is a cape?
200
This coast is very varied. In the northwest it is high and rocky and there are many estuaries. In the south it is very sandy and low-lying.
What is the Atlantic coast.
200
This includes all of the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
300
Flat land near the ocean.
What are coastal plains?
300
The mountain chain to the north of the Central Plateau.
What are the Pyrenees?
300
Where the river meets the sea.
What is an estuary?
300
They have high coasts as well as long beaches.
What are the Balearic islands?
300
This is the removal of soil and rocks by wind and water.
What is erosion?
400
A plain at a high altitude.
What is a plateau?
400
The mountain chain that is in Andalucía.
What is the Betic Chain?
400
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
400
Spain has this many types of coasts.
What are five?
400
The middle layer of the Earth is called this.
What is the mantle?
500
The height of something above sea level or the Earth's surface.
What is altitude?
500
The depression located in the south of Spain.
What is the Guadalquivir depression?
500
They are located in high coasts near the sea.
What are cliffs?
500
Spain has more than this many kilometers of coastline in the peninsula.
What is 6,000?
500
Basalt is an example of this type of rock.
What is igneous?